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I asked for suggestions for a replacement for Netskills TONIC and Chris Hall (@chris_hall) passed on this recommendation from one of his students: BBC WebWise. This is a beginner's course aimed at adults who are new to computers and the internet. It has a very wide brief which seems to be the closest to TONIC in it's range of topics. Very high-quality resources as well as you'd expect from the BBC. Although not a direct replacement, WebWise was the best alternative that I have come across so far, and is the one I will be using with my EG-152 class this year (I will be linking to the Internet Detective and OU Safari too).
Case for web apps v native apps on smart phones. BBC Technology, 12 July 2011.
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after a period of rapid growth, native smartphone apps are facing a fight for survival.
That threat comes from web apps - software that runs in a browser rather than being downloaded and installed on the device's operating system.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek philosopher Socrates, acknowledged as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Born in 469 BC into the golden age of the city of Athens, he has profoundly influenced philosophy ever since. In fact, his impact is so profound that all the thinkers who went before are simply known as pre-Socratic.
In person Socrates was deliberately irritating, he was funny and he was rude; he didn’t like democracy very much and spent quite a lot of time in shoe shops. He claimed he was on a mission from God to educate his fellow Athenians but has left us nothing in his own hand because he refused to write anything down.
With Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University; David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University; Paul Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.
Last broadcast on Thu, 27 Sep 2007, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4
Enda Farrell discusses how CouchDB is used by BBC for some of its websites, presenting the context it is deployed in, the operations performed against it, how replication and compacting works, some statistics, and how it is used at scale. From QCon, London 2010.
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Probably yes. A reaction to Ofcom's recent report that claims that Brits use up to 7 hours a day using media and nine hours if you include using several devices at once. But as you might know form your own experiences, doing more than one thing at once makes you less rather than more productive. Computers can do it because they save the complete state before switching and restore it when switching back. Human brains don't have stack frames.
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Britons are increasingly overlapping their media habits - tapping out e-mails while watching TV, reading a paper while answering texts from friends. But, asks Hugh Wilson, does media multi-tasking mean instead of doing a few things well, we are just doing more things badly?
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According to the Ofcom analysis, the average Briton spends seven hours a day watching or using media. But that figure rises to nearly nine hours when you squeeze in time many of us now spend using several devices at once.
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John le Carre, Interviewed in 1966 by Malcolm Muggeridge at the time of "A Looking Glass War"
In Their Own Words: British Novelists. Another great resource from the BBC and OU. Dig further for an extensive archive of radio and television interviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/; and an OU OpenLearn site to support the series: http://www.o
Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. First broadcast afternoons at 3.45 starting 14th June. Episodes are available on iPlayer fo
Lecture 1: The Scientific Citizen. "in the first of this year's Reith Lectures, entitled Scientific Horizons, Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College and Astronomer Royal, explores the challenges facing science in the 21st c
"In 24 hours, the hashtag #debill appeared 14,400 times on Twitter, as compared to 1,470 tweets using the election hashtag #ge2010. So, does that mean the mainstream media, with its concentration on campaign news, is ignoring the really big story? Or is t
The BBC's web site to support the new Documentary Series that airs on BBC 2 (in the UK) on Saturday 30th December.
Bill Thompson on Google's apparent freedom to digitize all the books in the world based on the outcome of an agreement reached with a small group that represents some US authors and publishers.
Home Page for the "In Our Time" website and archive of several series of this rich collection of discussions, chaired by Melvin Bragg, on philosophy, religion, culture, history and science. Current talks play in the BBC iPlayer, older archive editions use
Another article from the BBC in which "luminaries" discuss the future of the world-wide web. Via Jack Schofield at Guardian Technology.
Interview from BBC with Tim Berners-Lee on 15th Anniversary of fisrt public release of www by Cern. Via Jack Schofield at Guardian
Nice tutorial on using netvides to create your own web portal a la Google Ig, MyYahoo, MSN.
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